Economic Games - Publications - Faculty & Research

02 Nov 2021
Research & Ideas

Why COVID-19 Probably Killed More People Than We Realize

but there was no real research focused on it.” Unexplained death figures vary widely The level of underreporting varied significantly from one country to the next, the research team outlined in a recent article in the Journal of Economics... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

10 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

Retailing Revolution: Category Killers on the Brink

category levels, which over time would destroy the economics of the entire store. Amazon.com and other e-commerce players did a tremendous job focusing on goods and categories that shoppers were now willing to buy via the Internet, such... View Details

Keywords: by Rajiv Lal & Jose B. Alvarez; Retail

26 Nov 2001
Op-Ed

Why Corporate Budgeting Needs To Be Fixed

shenanigans have become so common that they're almost invisible. The budgeting process is so deeply embedded in corporate life that the attendant lies and games are simply accepted as business as usual, no matter how destructive they are.... View Details

Keywords: by Michael C. Jensen

06 Jun 2005
What Do You Think?

Is a “Level Playing Field” a Good Thing?

haves and have nots. Economists point to the rapid increases in economic growth and productivity in China and India in relation to more developed economies as evidence that a more level playing field is resulting in huge advances in the... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

22 Nov 2016
First Look

November 22, 2016

November 2016 Quarterly Journal of Economics Stereotypes By: Bordalo, Pedro, Katherine Baldiga Coffman, Nicola Gennaioli, and Andrei Shleifer Abstract—We present a model of stereotypes based on Kahneman and Tversky's representativeness... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

19 Sep 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19

out the effect of an increasingly important retail phenomenon (channel integration) on a key factor for inventory management (sales dispersion). Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53103 forthcoming Brookings Papers on View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

28 Feb 2012
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First Look: Feb. 28

PublicationsThe Power of Political Voice: Women's Political Representation and Crime in India Authors:Lakshmi Iyer, Anandi Mani, Prachi Mishra, and Petia Topalova Publication:American Economic Journal: Applied View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

15 Jun 2007
Research & Ideas

Remembering Alfred Chandler

economic life. Chandler always stressed the importance of knowledge and learning inside organizations, which preceded more recent notions of the knowledge company or organizational learning. He was also a model intellectual, a scholar's... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 1

propose a general mechanism of partner choice, "screening," that is similar to the economic theory of mechanism design. Imposing the appropriate costs and rewards may induce the informed individuals to screen themselves... View Details

04 Dec 2018
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New Research and Ideas, December 4, 2018

link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55322 forthcoming Journal of Financial Economics Governance Through Shame and Aspiration: Index Creation and Corporate Behavior By: Chattopadhyay, Akash, Matthew D. Shaffer, and... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

13 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 13

PublicationsHigher Ambition: How Great Leaders Create Economic and Social Value Authors:Michael Beer, Russel A. Eisenstat, Nathaniel Foote, Tobias Fredberg, and Flemming Norrgren Publication:Harvard Business Press, 2011 Abstract... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

28 Oct 2014
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First Look: October 28

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1603484 October 2014 Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization Prosocial Norms in the Classroom: The Role of Self-regulation in Following Norms of Giving By: Blake, P.R., M.... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

30 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

The New Rules for Remote Work: Pandemic Edition

leaders need a new game plan. We asked Harvard Business School professors to provide practical advice for managing large-scale, long-term remote work at a time when many employees are not only distracted by the commotion in their homes,... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

12 Oct 2011
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First Look: October 12

Publication:Brookings Papers on Economic Activity (spring 2011) Abstract This paper examines the optimal response of monetary and fiscal policy to a decline in aggregate demand. The theoretical framework is a two-period general... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

06 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 6

productive. The authors have studied when 161 countries adopted 104 technologies over the past 200 years, and they conclude that profound economic advantages-as measured by per capita income-accrue to early adopters of technology. Read... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

13 Oct 2009
Research & Ideas

7 Lessons for Navigating the Storm

lead during a crisis such as the global economic crisis of 2008-09. I found that many failed to follow seven universal lessons for leading in crisis. I believe the root cause of the recent financial crisis was leaders who practiced... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

10 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot

one way or another, grieving. According to David Kessler, an author and grief expert quoted in a recent HBR article, “The loss of normalcy; the fear of economic toll; the loss of connection. This is hitting us and we’re grieving.... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Katherine Connolly Baden

Article

Characterization of Satisfactory Mechanisms for the Revelation of Preferences for Public Goods

By: Jerry R. Green and Jean-Jacques Laffont

Social decision mechanisms that admit dominant strategies and result in Pareto optima are characterized by the class of mechanisms proposed by Groves. The concept of decision mechanisms is generalized and the characterization is shown to extend to these cases. View Details

Keywords: Decision Mechanisms; Game Theory; Economics

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16 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 16

more or less effective? Does bundling serve as a complement or substitute to network effects? To address these questions, we develop a consumer-choice model from micro-foundations to capture the essentials of our setting, the handheld video View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino